News, Articles, Archive - AZPM News - Local, independent journalism from the NPR 89.1 newsroom

Students and families receive packaged meals from Tucson Unified School District workers who are distributing meals along the district's bus routes during closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

TUSD officially reopening March 24

Feb 12, 2021 Southern Arizona’s largest district has been in remote learning for nearly a year

Passengers at Tucson International Airport wait to pick up their luggage in baggage claim. August 2020.

Passenger totals plunge at Arizona’s major airports

Feb 12, 2021 Tucson International Airport recorded its lowest numbers since 1982.

A COVID-19 vaccination site set up on the University of Arizona Mall. January 2021.

High-capacity vaccine site, childhood vaccines, air travel impacts

Feb 12, 2021 Plus, analyzing Arizona's economic recovery and the pandemic's impacts on health care.

Waiting for COVID-19 variants

Feb 12, 2021 Few cases of the variants have shown up in Arizona.

Ga'an Canyon is a place where beings who have been compared to angels live according to the Apache religion. It is near Oak Flat.

Historic preservation council says mitigation commitments don't 'offset the destruction' of Oak Flat

Feb 12, 2021 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is looking for public comment.

A news release photo of the Arizona State Courts Building, in Phoenix.

Arizona Supreme Court judge retiring

Feb 12, 2021 The Court’s presiding disciplinary judge William J. O’Neil will step down later this year

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona reports 2,426 additional COVID-19 cases, 172 deaths

Feb 12, 2021 Case numbers continue to slow, but health experts caution diligence.

A Tucson Fire Department vehicle and gear.

Tucson invests for pension payments

Feb 12, 2021 The city is trying to get rid of a long-term, billion-dollar debt.

A look at economic help for Arizonans one year into the pandemic

Feb 12, 2021 Despite federal and state aid, many Arizonans are still at risk of going hungry or losing their homes.

Border wall construction near Walker Canyon, east of Nogales.

Conservation group: Border wall construction continues

Feb 12, 2021 The Center for Biological Diversity says construction is continuing in spite of the President's order to stop it.

Rural counties making strides with COVID-19 vaccines

Feb 11, 2021 Many rural counties are leading the state in vaccination rates.

News roundup: State plans for UA vaccine site expansion, lawsuit revisits Border Patrol shooting

Feb 11, 2021 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Feb. 11.

Thirty-foot-high border wall was installed along the border near Sasabe, Arizona, and Mexico in the summer of 2020.

Biden terminates Trump's emergency declaration for border wall construction

Feb 11, 2021 The former president enacted the declaration in 2019 to garner military funds for his wall.

UA wildcat sculpture sports a mask, July 2020

No positive COVID-19 tests at UA

Feb 11, 2021 The university has had a positivity rate below 1% for weeks.

Councilwoman Claudette White, a member of the Quechan Indian Tribal Council, died Feb. 6, 2021 after contracting COVID-19. She also served on the Quechan and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians tribal courts.

Fort Yuma Quechan Tribal Council member dies after getting COVID-19

Feb 11, 2021 Claudette White was new to the council but had a legal history in tribal courts as a judge.

Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren will be replacing former Arizona State Representative Arlando Teller in District 7.

New District 7 state representative named

Feb 11, 2021 Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren was appointed the newest representative for District 7.

News, Articles